Missing articles: hassomething terrible happened?

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    palmersphotos · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I was updating and re-categorising a few articles on my blog and I think I’ve done something terribly wrong. Basically, the page, tags, and featured image are all there, but nothing else. These articles in particular are quite valuable to both me and the organisations I represent – I work with a volunteer organisation who photographs foster animals for adoption, and the two articles I think I have lost are of loving pets who desperately needs homes soon!

    I spent hours writing those articles and I have an impaired memory, making re-writing them impossible. Is it possible that they are still floating around in cyber-space somewhere?

    Thanks for your help,
    David.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    The Admin login link for that site is
    http://palmersphotos.wordpress.com/wp-admin

    The saved drafts posts are found at
    http://palmersphotos.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

    The saved draft pages are found at
    http://palmersphotos.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=page

    Staff are working on improving post and page revisions. The most recent 25 revisions are available for posts and pages.

    If you cannot restore from your browser, or locate a revision, or restore from Trash then the content has been lost and cannot be recovered.

    re: recovering a lost post or page
    Please go to https://wordpress.com/post with the same browser and see if it offers to restore a post. If a restore button appears, that means a local copy was saved in your browser and you may be able to recover it.

    If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Pages > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needed.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/page-revisions/

    See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash

    I recommend:
    1. Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
    Dashboard > Posts > Add New and pages at Dashboard > Pages > Add New
    If you have cookies enabled on your browser your preference will be saved unless or until your clear your cookies, and it will take you to the classic editor automatically every time you create a new post via the drop-down menu in the black admin bar or edit a post via the edit button on the blog itself.

    You cannot deactivate the new editor but you do not have to use it. For locating the ways and means of accessing the legacy or classic pages for creating posts, editing posts, and viewing stats see here > Navigating the Classic WordPress.COM interface http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/

    2. Immediately after creating a post and entering a title click the save draft link. Thereafter, “click save draft” frequently.

    3. Always allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.

    4. Never leave a post or page open for content creation or editing and walk away from it, or open another tab in the same blog and work on something else while it is still open. Save it properly and return to edit it later.

    5. Use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/

    If you were using the app you could report that here https://apps.wordpress.org/support/

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    palmersphotos · Member ·

    Wow, you’re incredible; thank you so much! I did think that revisions were stored somewhere, and I managed to find something that looks like what I lost – I’m not 100% sure what to do with it now but knowing that it is there at least is a massive relief.

    Thank you!

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    palmersphotos · Member ·

    Far out, that is such a relief. It’s nearly 1am here and I don’t think that adrenaline rush will let me sleep any time soon, but I think that’s enough WordPress for one night :P

    Thanks again guys; I was dubious about asking a forum instead of directly asking a helpdesk, but this system has been brilliant tonight. Thank you!

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    timethief · Member ·

    You’re welcome. :)

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